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Daniel KahnemanBorn 5 Mar 1934Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky in the 1970s, built in long daily conversations in Jerusalem, produced the research on heuristics, biases and prospect theory that founded behavioural economics. They tossed a coin to decide whose name went first on papers. When Kahneman received the 2002…0i - 2
Marie CurieBorn 7 Nov 1867Marie Curie and Pierre Curie worked side by side in a converted shed in Paris to isolate polonium and radium from tonnes of pitchblende, and shared the 1903 Nobel prize in physics with Henri Becquerel. After Pierre's death in 1906 she took over his professorship and won the 1911 chemistry prize…0i - 3
Wilbur WrightBorn 16 Apr 1867Wilbur Wright and his younger brother Orville ran a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, and solved the problem of controlled flight together, building their own wind tunnel and testing gliders at Kitty Hawk before the first powered flights in December 1903. They argued constantly, by their own account,…0 - 4
Mary LeakeyBorn 6 Feb 1913Mary Leakey's partnership with her husband Louis at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania was famously unequal in publicity: Louis did the lectures, while Mary ran the excavations and found the "Zinj" skull in 1959. After his death she led the team that uncovered the Laetoli footprints in 1978, evidence of…0i - 5
Katalin KarikóBorn 17 Jan 1955Katalin Karikó struggled for funding for years until a chance meeting at a University of Pennsylvania photocopier led to her partnership with immunologist Drew Weissman. Together they showed in 2005 that modified nucleosides stop synthetic mRNA from triggering inflammation, the key step behind the…0i - 6
Emmanuelle CharpentierBorn 11 Dec 1968Emmanuelle Charpentier, a microbiologist who had moved through labs in several countries, met Jennifer Doudna at a conference in 2011, and their transatlantic collaboration produced the 2012 paper showing CRISPR-Cas9 could be programmed to cut DNA. Charpentier brought the bacterial biology;…0i - 7
Bill HewlettBorn 20 May 1913Bill Hewlett and David Packard, friends from Stanford, started their company in a Palo Alto garage in 1939, with an audio oscillator that Disney bought for Fantasia. Hewlett was the engineering inventor, Packard the organiser, and the management style they built together, the "HP Way", with…0i - 8
Ray EamesBorn 15 Dec 1912Ray Eames, a painter by training, worked with her husband Charles on moulded plywood furniture, the Eames Lounge Chair of 1956, exhibitions and films such as Powers of Ten. For decades the work was credited to Charles alone, though he insisted she was an equal partner. Recent scholarship has…0i - 9
Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeChristo and Jeanne-Claude spent decades negotiating permits, raising money from sales of preparatory drawings and wrapping landmarks such as the Pont Neuf and the Reichstag, then installing The Gates in Central Park in 2005. From the mid-1990s they officially credited all their large works jointly,…0i - 10
W. S. GilbertW. S. Gilbert's partnership with composer Arthur Sullivan produced fourteen comic operas, including HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, staged by the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte at his Savoy Theatre. They often quarrelled, notoriously over a carpet, yet each did his best work…0i
